Rajendran is also in the process of taking legal action against her abusers.

"What is deeply disturbing is that they do not even find sexual abuses problematic and keep making false equivalence that if someone ‘criticised’ their actor, it is okay to abuse," Rajendran told BuzzFeed.

Dhanya Rajendran

She added, "For decades, the movie industry has put us on a staple diet of misogynistic movies and they see their hero putting women in their places. That is precisely why most of the abuses are sexual in nature because they believe that makes a woman uncomfortable. I am pretty sure these packs troll men too, but that would be of a different nature.

"What is disappointing is that this kind of organized trolling is not condemned by the actors, so does it have their tacit approval? It is time, actors like Vijay and others, who even have political ambitions, come out and make their stand clear," she added.